Berkeley Bakery

Filipino here! From this bakery, I've had the regular pandesal, ube pandesal, ensaymada, and ube ensaymada. They're always authentic, fluffy, and have excellent texture/flavor. I live in Delaware & don't have to travel to NJ for these baked goods since they're shipped right to my local Asian supermarket! Never had any issues with these baked goods so I'm not sure about the few negative reviews here (I'm thinking that some people are just sooo picky & are impossible to please. Not to mention, they are insensitive to the fact that negative reviews with 1 or 2 stars can potentially hurt small mom and pop businesses like this one). I'll continue to support this business, especially since it's already so difficult to find a good Filipino bakery here in the east coast.

Berkeley Bakery has the best ube cheese pandesal rolls in NJ. When fresh, the bread and ube and cream cheese filling are sweet and soft. None of that salty Kraft singles garbo like in other store brands. I just had them again a bit ago and was reminded of this fact. THEY ARE THE BEST. I won’t be taking questions. See for yourself!!

“Hopia” is one of my favorite Filipino pastry. It’s crunchy on the outside and with sweet filling inside. When it is done right it can be delicious! I tried hopia from this bakery and I was disappointed! The filling is too sweet and it doesn’t have a taste of “baboy” at all. I looked at the ingredients and it didn’t say pork. So, I am just wondering why they would label this product as “hopia baboy!” When in fact, that is not what’s in the ingredients. I tried microwaving it for 30 seconds and it didn’t turn out right. Toasting it in the small oven was way better. I hope they will make it less sweet!

Normally, I go to asian grocery stories for my Filipino sweet craving but I wanted something fresh. This store may looks small but it's filled with my fav snacks ! The staff also ultra nice too, I enjoy they care to get to know their customer base so I felt at home the ube Pandesal (Filipino bread roll) with cheese, it was fresh out the oven: It is sooo soft and creamy:the perfect amount of cream and ube filling. I also picked some some ube ensaymada (sweat bread Purple yam with buttercream frosting with cheese and more purple yam filling basically a giant cupcake) .